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Going Green: A Wise Consumer’s Guide to a Shrinking Planet, by Kneidel and Kneidel serves a purpose. The informative and motivational prose renders the most “green” sustainable living newby more educated, and also refreshes some unhappy norms about how we shop and consume.
Chapter One goes after cars and petroleum products. Every green person knows cars are huge pollution problems both from the daily use standpoint and the ugly footprint they leave in landfills. But Kneidel’s book informs the reader about technical gizmos and fuel tank designs that favor green use.
But first person relating is always a direct provocation for change. One chapter details the Tyson food product manufacturing experience, a vivid remidner about how industrial practices behind the scenes contribute a negative impact for the environment getting our plastic-wrapped products to grocery store shelves.
Guilt free hygiene, guiltless cotton, and Fair Trade certification are reviewed. Secondhand clothing choices are still greener than indeterminate new goods whose pedigree with regard to pesticides and child labor is unclear or unrevealed.
These should be universal standards of smart consumerism yet global trade laws still favor the cheapest not the greenest good to market. This books brings daily consumer choices to the green fore like few others. Does your personal choice requirement for your daily ration of toilet paper merit deforestation, biodiversity reductions, and clear cutting forests?
Ever wonder why some grocery store products just disappear? This book shows up some strange problems with long standing grocery store favorites. Reading labels seems very very relevant again. What organization tests the claims by labels, and who establishes the limit to which mistruths in labeling can occur? Who watches the watchers?
Going Green, A Wise Consumer’s Guide to a Shrinking Planet specifies very many instances which a consumer can concretely confront in daily life the relationship between safe and healthy product marketing and storefront delivery and wise and informed consumer choice. Which states have more lax industrial food processing practices, inspections and labor laws? It’s food for green thought.
This book brings very specific instances of consumer concern into focus. The green living perspective cannot help but derive from literature like this that informs readers about the invisible pitfalls in the marketing and industrial manufacturing worlds, and the intangible barrier between these companies and the consumer public.
Going Green, A Wise Consumer’s Guide to a Shrinking Planet is a very good read which affords any level of environmental advocate or sustainability fiend reminders about the dangers of meat production, textile processing abuses, labor law infractions, and the impact to consumers.
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